Abigail Adams Quotes
1744 – 1818
American First Lady and prolific letter writer, wife of John Adams.
20 quotesAbout Abigail Adams on Wikipedia
“I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in this province.”
“Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.”
“Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.”
“Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands.”
“Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.”
“If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women.”
“I regret the narrow contracted education of the females of my own country.”
“If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?”
“Luxury, that baneful poison, has unstrung and enfeebled her sons.”
“The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.”
“A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.”
“I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life.”
“Shall we be despised by foreign powers for hesitating so long at a word?”
